Synchronous Double Bile Duct Cancers with Distinct Genetic Features.

A 69-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of appetite loss. Imaging showed a nodular tumor in the perihilar bile duct and a second flat lesion in the distal bile duct. Right hepatopancreaticoduodenectomy was performed, and the histopathological findings demonstrated that the perihilar and distal lesions were moderately and poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, respectively, and anatomically separated.

Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome induced by neoplastic meningitis in a patient receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Background: Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome is characterized by neurological symptoms resulting from cerebral edema, which occurs as a consequence of hemodialysis. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome most often occurs in patients who have just started hemodialysis, during hemodialysis, or soon after hemodialysis; although it may also occur in patients who are under maintenance hemodialysis with pre-existing neurological disease.

Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman, who had been receiving maintenance hemodialysis for one year, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer by ascites cytological examination.

[A case of prostate cancer presenting as extensive abdominal metastasis].

A 73-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a chief complaint of hematemesis. Two years before admission, adenocarcinoma of unknown origin was diagnosed. Since then, the patient had been taking TS-1 (pramoxine hydrochloride) medication, which caused gastroduodenal mucosal damage.

[A case report of successful treatment for rectosigmoid cancer with peritoneal dissemination after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy with XELOX and bevacizumab].

A 60-year-old woman underwent emergency operation for ileus due to rectosigmoid cancer. Intraoperative cytology and peritoneal dissemination were positive. After performing sigmoid colostomy, she underwent neoadjuvant radiation therapy (40 Gy)and eight courses of a XELOX and bevacizumab regimen.

[A case report of pathologically complete response of locally advanced rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy with XELOX and bevacizumab].

A 70-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for constipation. A clinical examination showed locally advanced rectal cancer with possible invasion to the prostate gland and pelvic wall. After performing colostomy, he underwent neoadjuvant radiation therapy (40 Gy) and six courses of a XELOX and bevacizumab regimen.

[A case of locally advanced rectal cancer had a pathological complete response to XELOX Therapy].

The patient was a 62-year-old man with bowel obstruction in a locally advanced rectal cancer. Computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen showed tumor enlargement(11.4 × 9.

Ependymoma with "granular cell" features: report of two cases.

We report two cases of ependymoma which showed prominent "granular cell" changes of the cytoplasm. The patients were a 7-year-old boy with a tumor in the cerebellum (case 1) and a 70-year-old man with a tumor in the frontal lobe (case 2). The tumor of case 1 showed a histopathological appearance of ependymoma containing many focal aggregates of large polygonal cells in which the cytoplasm was stuffed with numerous eosinophilic granules.

The change in the dihydrotestosterone level in the prostate before and after androgen deprivation therapy in connection with prostate cancer aggressiveness using the Gleason score.

Purpose: We investigated the change in dihydrotestosterone in the prostate during androgen deprivation therapy in connection with prostate cancer aggressiveness using the Gleason score.

Materials And Methods: A total of 28 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer who were treated with androgen deprivation therapy for 6 months were enrolled in this study. Dihydrotestosterone in the prostate and serum were analyzed using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry after polar derivatization before and after androgen deprivation therapy.

Association between the dihydrotestosterone level in the prostate and prostate cancer aggressiveness using the Gleason score.

Purpose: To our knowledge the association between dihydrotestosterone in the prostate and prostate cancer aggressiveness has not yet been elucidated. We analyzed dihydrotestosterone levels in the prostate and Gleason score in patients diagnosed with clinically localized prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: A total of 81 patients with suspected prostate cancer underwent prostate biopsy.